Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-10
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The Parliament Of the colony OF Vic
toria has voted the sum of 100000 TO be
expended in prospecting for gold,
Five hundred gallons of wine have Just
been received in Chicago from Jerusalem.
II has been more than two months on the
way. IL will be used for Passover purposes
Two ceate arians died in Lowell on Sun.
day-Paul McAloon, aged l0i years and
Rose Mcguire, 1903 years. Both were ma
tivos OF ireland, and had lived in Lowell
nearly half a century.
Fourteen OF the seventeen prominent
women of Seattle, W. H., who were inter
viewed on the women suffrage question,
said that they were glad that the law had
been declared void.
A pot hunter in Georgia came upon Il
coyey of twelve partridges huddlod to-
pether on the ground. He fired into the
bunch and murdered eleven, and then kill
ed the twelfth with his second barrel "a it
tried 20 fly away,
The only Quaker tavern keeper in nala
ware county, Pa, is said TO be Uncle Benny
Rogers, widely known as the host of the
Rosetree Inn. He will not sell liquor TO
a man of known drinking habits, nor 30
man who has had too much iirewater,
Joseph Messenger of ALTOONA, Pa.
! found nest of six young rats in barrel
| He put his cat in the barrel that she might
slaughter them, but she then and there
adopted the ratings, and endeavored to
carry them away in her mouth "a she
would her own kittens.
A citizen of ssHawkinsville, Ga, bought
a turtle, cut off its head, and had turtle
soup for dinner. The next day ali un-
suspecting chicken Pecking at the head
was grabbed, and not released until the
mouth Of the head of the cooked turtle
was opened with knife.
Private Dyke fell of his horse near
| Fort Duchesne, Utah, and was stunned
1 by the fall He froze to death before he
recovered consciousness. This is the
| paragraph that comes from tho West.
| How it was ascertained that he was no
killed outright by the fall is not said.
Stella Hays, aged IA, and Irwin Laugh.
lin, aged 10, both girls and both of Pitts
burgh, are heirs 10 millions, Stella's
grandfather left 100000 TO be divided
among four heirs, OF which She is one;
aud Irwin is an orphan and will have
more than one million when she is of
/ age.
A Montana man reached Chicago with
five car loads of good cattle the ether day;
sold them al nm advantage, and turned
up in police court next morning with
| rs cents, which was all that remained OF
the thousands of dollars that he had
when he started TO take ip the Town.
| The devastation OF the grain Fields of
Alameda county, Cal, byewild ducks and
geese at night, set the farmers wits at
work to keep them away. The best device
so far is TO burn candies here and there
over the fields. They are protected from
/ the wind by sacks, and have thus far
proved oflicacious. HE
! Gerry's completed portrait of Mrs.
| Cleveland does not meet with approval
from the critics. IL represents her in
black velvet, which il not as becoming as
| the wine-colored plush she sometimes
wears. The likeness is not a faithful one,
and altogether the picture is notIthought
| TO deserve a permanent place in the White
House gallery
| The United States Senate has confirm
cd the nomination of Daniel Magone to
be Collector of Customs of the port OF
! New York.
Senator Sherman will make an exteRded
J Southern tour after tbs adjournment OF
! Congress. Ho will deliver speech at
| Nashville, Tenn, on the political issues
of the day.
The President has signed the bill'cr
/ ing an additional Associate Justice for
I the Supreme Court of the Territory of
/ New Mexico, and appointed X. A. Reeves
Of Texas, as the new Associate Justice
The bill to submit to the people con
| stitutional amendment comforting fun
! suffrage upon women, subject to this same
/ conditions and limitations as men, was
/ passed in the Rhode leland Senate by a
/ vote of 26 TO 3.
The chinook in Montana which com
/ menced Saturday has carried off great
I part of the snow, exceL tin the mountains
/ and the cattle are again feeding and rest
/ ing from there recent severe experience.
Twenty thousand persons are rendered
homeless by the earthquake in Italy. The
material losses are estimated at $4,000,
600, falling mostly upon industrious yil-
/ layers.
While tho Queen Regent of Spain was
out riding yesterday, a. missile was thrown
al her carriage by man in, the street
who imeai.tely disappeared. The Queen
! Regent was not hurt. g -
Mr. John A. Elder, a Riehmoneh artist
is at Beauyoir Miss, painting portrait
of Jefferson Davis. IL represents him
standing in the attitude of speaking, one
hand extended, the other resting on the
constitution lying on the table, on which
are his books and the sword he used n the
! Mexican war.